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ScrapingIsNotACrime pricing and alternatives: Instagram profile API

ScrapingIsNotACrime's sitellms.txtBest Instagram profile API in 2026: pricing comparedScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram profile API alternatives

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 285 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.15.Scrappa, ScrapeCreators and lobstr.io are the best Instagram profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 6 plans
Call: GET /instagram/profile/{username} ScrapingIsNotACrime's only call for this API
API: Instagram profile API one of ScrapingIsNotACrime's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Instagram when you call the API.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Bio, Photo, Links, Contact, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send username to GET /instagram/profile/{username}. The call returns the account's profile.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingIsNotACrime: Instagram profile API alternatives

The table starts with ScrapingIsNotACrime's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to ScrapingIsNotACrime's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 packlobstr.io, $192 yearlySocialAPIs, $49 monthlySocial Fetch, $379 pack, Scale, GET /v2/instagram/profiles/{profile}, Get Instagram profileFetchLayer, $25 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$1.658$1.60$1.633$1.648$1.667
Completeness73%73%73%82%73%
Billingpay firstyearlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$199$192$49$379$25
Enough for120,000 calls10,000 results a month30,000 calls a month230,000 calls15,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

Every Instagram profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. scrapingisnotacrime.com/docs
  2. scrapingisnotacrime.com/llms.txt
  3. scrapingisnotacrime.com/mcp
  4. scrapingisnotacrime.com/pricing
  5. scrapingisnotacrime.com/sdks/python
  6. scrapingisnotacrime.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Bio
  • Photo
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Location, not in the answer
  • Verified
  • Followers
  • Following
  • Posts
  • Likes, not in the answer
  • Views, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline/latest · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/timeline · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/highlights · GET /instagram/highlights/{highlightId} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/media/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode} · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/download · GET /instagram/media/{shortcode}/id · GET /instagram/media/id/{mediaId} · GET /instagram/reels/{shortcode} · GET /tiktok/profile/{username} · GET /tiktok/video/{videoId} · GET /youtube/channel/{handle}/videos · GET /appstore/search · GET /appstore/reviews · GET /github/profiles/{handle} · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/followers · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/following · GET /github/profiles/{handle}/repositories · GET /github/repositories · GET /github/trending/repositories · GET /hackernews/feeds/{feed} · GET /hackernews/items/{id} · GET /hackernews/search · GET /hackernews/users/{username} · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/submissions · GET /hackernews/users/{username}/comments · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle} · GET /bluesky/profiles/{handle}/posts · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle} · GET /twitch/profiles/{handle}/videos · GET /linktree/profiles/{handle}
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns public profile metadata for any Instagram username — follower count, following, media count, bio and bio links, verification and privacy flags, and the business block.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Service for any lawful purpose, including but not limited to: Market research and competitive analysis, Brand monitoring and social listening, Academic and journalistic research on publicly available data, Building data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products, Training machine learning models on public data, Content aggregation and curation tools, Influencer discovery and audience analysis. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the retrieved data complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction [...] You must not use the Service to: Stalk, harass, or build surveillance tools targeting specific individuals, Compile data for spam, phishing, or unsolicited outreach campaigns, Attempt to access private, non-public, or login-gated content, Circumvent any platform's authentication or access controls, Resell API access, proxy our endpoints, or build a competing API service using our infrastructure, Collect data of minors for any commercial or profiling purpose, Use the Service in any way that violates applicable law, including data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, etc.), Automate bulk personal data harvesting for purposes of identity theft or fraud [...] Data retrieved through the Service may be subject to the intellectual property rights of the originating platform or content creator. You are responsible for ensuring your downstream use of retrieved data complies with applicable IP law and the terms of service of the source platform.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendusername
MethodGET
Path/instagram/profile/{username}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, Facebook ID, username, name, bio, bio links, followers, following, posts count, highlights count, profile picture, has reels, has guides, has channel, business account, business address, business contact method, business email, business phone, business category, professional account, category, private account, verified

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